Jamie Lawrence

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Jamie Lawrence (b. 8 March 1970, Battersea, London) is a Jamaican soccer player who currently plays for Worthing in the English Isthmian League Premier Division, he often plays on the right, primarily as a winger but also in defence. He won 42 caps for Jamaica.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 After football 3 Trivia 4 Sources

[edit] Playing career

• Cowes Sports (1993)
• Sunderland (1993)
• Darlington (1993-1994)
• Leicester City (1994-1997)
• Bradford City (1997-2002)
• Walsall(2002)
• Wigan Athletic (2003)
• Grimsby Town (2003)
• Brentford (2004-2006)
• Worthing (2006-)

[edit] After football

Lawrence is the author of the autobiography From Prison to the Premiership, published in 2006, with Ron Shillingford.

[edit] Trivia

• Leicester City fans nicknamed Lawrence "pineapple-head" due to his unique hairstyle.
• He cost Bradford City manager Chris Kamara just £50,000 when he signed from Leicester City
• Lawrence was, as a youth, involved in crime and was eventually imprisoned, aged 19. While playing for his prison side he was spotted by Cowes Sports, and then while playing for them spotted by Sunderland manager Terry Butcher.

[edit] Sources

• Boy From Brazil
• The Observer